"Because cardiovascular death is the number one cause of death in the world, not just in developed countries, but throughout the world, the role that air pollutants play on this has a tremendous effect on overall world mortality."
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The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overallmortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.
Women also have a higher overallmortality rate than men, partly because of bias and neglect over a lifetime, according to recent research, as well as mortality during childbirth.
If there's a silver lining to Stuckler's findings, it's that a drop in traffic deaths appears to have canceled out the impact of the added suicides on the overallmortality rate of the countries.